Understanding Learning

PART ONE: INFLUENCES ON EDUCATION/The Politics of Educational Ideas/A Redefinition of Liberal and Humanistic Education/New Progressivism/PART TWO: VIEWS OF LEARNING/Minds at Work/Applying Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom/The Acquisition of a Child by a Learning Disability/Situated Cognition and How to Overcome It/Children Yesterday Today and Tomorrow/PART THREE: OUTCOMES OF ASSESSMENT/Liberating the Learner through Assessment/Gendered Learning and Achievement/Raising Standards/Is Ability Grouping the Answer?/Wide Eyes and Open Minds/Observing Assessing and Respecting Children's Early Achievements/PART FOUR: CULTURAL CAPITAL AND LEARNING/'I'll Be a Nothing'/Structure Agency and the Construction of Identity through Assessment/Learning and Pupil Career in a Primary School/The Case of William/Home-School Links/Researching Home-School Relations/A Critical Approach